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Hafsat D. Abiola ’96, daughter of the democratically-elected president of Nigeria, calls on President Neil L. Rudenstine and the Undergraduate Council to support a campaign for the University to divest from Nigeria. The UC, dozens of professors, and several student organizations support her efforts. Abiola calls for divestment when the Nigerian military junta, which seized the country in 1993 and imprisoned Abiola’s father, hangs 11 activists, including Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa. Harvard keeps its holdings in Nigeria, including $35 million in Shell Oil, a participant in business with Nigeria?...
...Francis Abiola Irele, “by all accounts the dominant scholar in the field of Francophone African literature,” according to Gates, was hired in the spring...
Thanks for your accurate portrait of Nigeria's political tragedy [WORLD, July 20]. We should observe a moment of silence for both General Sani Abacha and Chief Moshood Abiola, for they were my fellow Nigerians. The 18th century English writer Alexander Pope wrote, "For forms of government, let fools contest; whate'er is best administer'd is the best..." The fault lies not so much in Nigeria's form of government as in our selfish nature as Nigerians. ANTHONY A. AIYA-OBA Boston...
General Abdulsalam Abubakar's nine-month timetable for a transition to military rule is good news for both the country's military rulers and their civilian opposition. "The sudden death of both General Sani Abacha and Moshood Abiola left all sides in disarray," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "It turned the military's planned election -- in which Abacha was the only candidate -- into a referendum over whether a dead man should rule the country. But it also left the opposition without a clear alternative...
...political prisoners and promises to free the rest. There is enormous pressure on the military to relinquish its grip so that new elections can be held before the end of the year. And, of course, miracles do happen. Nigerians need look no further than the transformation of Moshood Abiola from a fixer into their country's new symbol of democracy for indisputable proof of that...